- The RCMP raided the compound of self-proclaimed "Queen of Canada" Romana Didulo in Richmound, Saskatchewan on Wednesday. Didulo and 15 others were arrested following a firearms investigation; charges are pending.
- Calgary lawyers John Carpay and Jay Cameron, of the so-called "Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms", have been disbarred by the Law Society of Alberta after hiring a private investigator to put Manitoba judge Glenn Joyal, who was presiding over their case against pandemic restrictions, under surveillance.
- The Manitoba government is backing away from a plan to open a supervised consumption site near the Disraeli overpass. The government still plans to open a site, but strident opposition from local residents is forcing them to reconsider the location.
- A proposal to build supportive housing in Winnipeg's Grant Park neighbourhood is getting a lot of pushback from residents in neighbouring River Heights. An unsigned leaflet is being distributed to stoke fear of crime and mental illness.
- The Quebec government has rejected an offer of federal money that would have helped address systemic racism in the justice system. Presumably they feared that accepting the money would be an admission that the province has a problem with racism.
- The states of Washington, Oregon, and California are creating a new public health agency in response to the Trump regime's takeover of federal agencies. They will be issuing their own public health recommendations with regards to vaccines and the like.
- A long-lost painting, Giuseppe Ghislandi's "Portrait of a Lady", painted in 1710, has been recovered in Argentina, some 80 years after it was stolen by the Nazis. The painting was discovered by accident in photos on a real estate agent's website; it was hanging on the wall of a house being sold by the daughter of the late Friedrich Kadgien, an advisor to Hermann Goring.
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